“If Asian Americans saw white Americans the way white Americans see black Americans”
“Anil Dash, an Indian American and co-founder of social media analytics company ThinkUp, put out a series of tweets challenging the thinking behind that trope. Asian Americans aren’t just model minorities, he argues. Data show that they have surpassed white Americans in so many ways that Asian Americans could talk about white Americans as disparagingly as white Americans talk about the country’s black population.”
There are really problematic ways to read this satire, but pushing past that: I think this is the kind of experiential learning that white people need to do, and I think it helps re-frame race and place it firmly as this social category with semi-arbitrary associations. It makes us think about our unspoken (but highly reinforced) racial hierarchies, and the “rational” “quantifiable” reasons that are pointed to whenever something clearly racist is pointed out.
